For reals?

I don't even know what to say about this.

Blurg.

As a teacher, being sick is so much work. In what other profession do you have to plan out your day to stay home? And even more so as an elementary teacher, as I pretty much have to plan out my day minute by minute.

Well, I just got home from planning my third sick day in a row. Tomorrow I will sleep in and then go to the hospital to get my throat checked out. I have a bump in the back of my throat where my tonsils are. Or rather, where they aren't, as I had them removed when I was 6. Then they sort of grew back when I was 12ish. Bet you didn't know they could grow back, did you? Apparently if some tissue remains, they can regenerate. So, is that what's going on again? All I know is I feel like I'm trying to swallow a tennis ball.

And I don't even play tennis.

Almost there!

So, when I started my journey back in September, one of the first goals I set was to lose 50 pounds by my birthday.

Well, my birthday is in less than 3 weeks and I've lost 46 pounds so far. It's looking like I'm going to make it!

Really? Not even on fish?

I was hurrying my students out of the computer lab the other day by flickering the lights because I have a few dawdlers. The lab doesn't have any windows, so when you turn off the lights, it's quite dark.

Lucas, one of my grade 1 students, was the last one in the lab and I had flicked the lights a couple of times before I turned them off completely. As he was coming down the steps, I heard Lucas mutter, "Oh, tartar sauce!"

Perplexed, I asked, "Lucas, did you just say tartar sauce?"

"Yep," he replied.

"Why did you say tartar sauce?"

"Because I don't like being in the dark."

"But why did you say tartar sauce?" Still confused.

"Because I don't like tartar sauce either."

Time to get a little personal

I don't usually get very personal on here. I'm not quite sure why, since it's a pretty small group of people who read my blog. In any case, I haven't in the past, but now I'm going to share something that I'm rather proud about.

I've been on a weight loss journey this year. One of my EA's and I joined Weight Watchers and 5 months later, I've lost 40 pounds! I've still got a ways to go, but it's awfully motivating to know that I can actually do it now!


Here's a picture of me from this summer, before I started losing weight.




Here's a picture from a few days ago, 40 pounds lighter!

A Canmore Christmas

I know. It's February. Better late than never, right?


We stayed in a beautiful condo in Canmore for Christmas (try saying that 5 times fast!). This was the view out our windows.







With all the food and stuff we brought along, we didn't have room to bring a tree. I found this tree in the Christmas store in Banff, so I bought it and we decorated it. The Starbucks ornaments are my favourites.




Someone wrote this festive message on a bench downtown. So I took a picture of it.




On one of our walks, we came across this duck. Actually, he came across us. We were just walking and he was flying above us and as soon as he saw us, he swooped down into the snow beside us. Luckily, we had bread with us as we were on our way to find and feed some ducks. This is the first of MANY duck pictures. These ducks were awesome.



































I don't know why these videos won't fit in the border. Oh well. Enjoy.







On our way back from feeding ducks one day, Huey spied an adventure. There was a little island of ice with a branch going across the creek. Being the adventurous sort, he set off across the branch.



Don't fall! That would be cold.



So proud.



Then he made a giant snow angel.



Back home again. Dad and Zack are so cute.

Blogger Failure

Oh, that title works in 2 ways! It has been way too long since I blogged, AND I tried to do a long overdue Christmas blog and stupid blogger won't upload my photos.

I'll try again later.

Just thought I would let you know of my efforts.